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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
5 items: Statement of William F. Thomas before Judiciary Committee, California State Assembly ; address to U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights ; copy of article, Fortune, 6/1974, "Must business fight the Press?" ; 2 copies "Statement of Robert S. Warren (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher) before U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights."
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Approx. 10 items: memos, a letter, article copies and other material related to the Free press - Fair trial issue in 1973. Note: 4-pp. essay (under cover letter dated 4/16/1973) by John Gardner, Chairman, Common Cause, "The right that guards all other rights," on freedom of information.
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5 items: 105-pp. booklet, Freedom of the Press - what it is, how it was obtained, how it can be retained, Newspaper-Radio Committee, 3/1942 ; reprint, Southern California Law Review, 3/1942, "Freedom of the Press in prospect and retrospect" by Leon R. Yankwich ; 12-pp. speech notes - Federal Bar Assn. ("Bassett" added at top margin in red ink) ; 7-pp. "Statement of William F. Thomas, Editor, Los Angeles Times, before United States Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights," 2/27/1973 ; multi-;age speech notes, headed "Sigma Delta Chi Sp... - Santa Ana" - 6/3/1977.
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Approx. 20 items: letters, memos, reports, newspaper clips, a booklet and other materials related to the Free press - Fair trial issue in 1969 and 1970. Notable items: 19-pp. booklet, "The editor's right to decide," text of an address by J. Edward Murray, Managing Editor, The Arizona Republic, 1969 ; multi-page article copied from National Observer, 7/6/1970, "The news media - besieged by critics," by Mark Arnold ; 9-pp. "Opinion" from Office of City Attorney Roger Arnebaugh to Edward M. Davis, L.A. Chief of Police, 5/6/1970, "concerns a request for (City Attorney's) opinion as to whether the employees of the Los Angeles Times may be compelled to give testimony before the Los Angeles Grand Jury disclosing the source of a news item, (etc.) ; more.
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Approx. 35 items: memos, letters, tear sheets, reprints, legal documents (State of New Mexico vs. Morris & Harrison - see also 1964 file). Notable items: 36-pp. booklet, Fair Trial vs. a Free Press (Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions) ; 11-pp. speech transcript, "Free press - fair trial," by Edward S. Shattuck, Pres. L.A. County Bar Assn. ; 14-pp. "Report of Press-Bar Committee, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1964 - 1965," topic is "Free Press - Fair Trial" - NBW handwritten note to OC on cover sheet ; multi-page article copy, The Atlantic Monthly, "Houston's shackled press," by Ben H. Bagdikian, n.d. shown ; 10-pp. (stapled) "Analysis of the problems of photograph and broadcasting in court proceedings," 12/1/1965, by Robert A. Neeb, Counsel for The Greater L.A. Press Club...20-pp. "Trial by newspaper," by Louis L. Jaffe - "prepared for delivery at the 1965 Annual Meeting of The American Political Science Assn. (9/1965) ; 11-pp. "Talk by Arthur B. Hanson, ANPA General Counsel..." on the topic Free Press and Fair Trial ; more.
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Approx. 10 items: several speech texts on the topic ; letter, 5/5/1959, from Frank Shea (asst. to Time magazine's Publisher) to NBW on muzzling the US Press ; complete issue, 10/15/1964, Austrian Information ; 13-pp. staple-bound booklet, The Press and the Courts (a series of reprints from LAT, 1964) ; 29-pp. brief (staple-bound) "...State of News Mexico vs. C.N. (Bill) Morris, Defendant, Will Harrison, Respondent and Appellant [in which the American Society of Newspaper Editors was defending Morris and Harrison) ; more.
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